American Politics Workshop Archive

April 2

James Gimpel, University of Maryland
"The Check is in the Mail: Interdistrict Funding Flows in Congressional Elections"
Related Papers:
"The Political Geography of Campaign Contributions in American Politics"
"Prospecting for (Campaign) Gold"

April 16

Eric Dickson, New York University
"Testing the Effect of Social Identity Appeals in Election Campaigns: An fMRI Study"
paper will be distributed via email

April 30

Zachary Callen, University of Chicago
"The Origins of Federal Involvement in Transportation Infrastructure: The Frontier, Sectionalism and the 1850 Illinois Central Railroad Land Grant"

May 14

David Primo, University of Rochester
"The Effect of Local Initiatives on Government Spending"

June 4

Paul Sniderman, Stanford University
"The Behavioral Bases of Rational Choice in Politics"

January 8

Gerald Rosenberg, University of Chicago
"Confusing Rights with Reality: Litigation for Same-Sex Marriage and the Counter-Mobilization of Law"

January 29

Greg Huber, Yale University
"The Effect of Electoral Competitiveness on Incumbent Behavior"

February 12

Linda Fowler, Dartmouth
"Guarding the Guardians: U. S. Senate Oversight of Foreign and Defense Policy, 1947-2004"
[PowerPoint slides]

February 26

Michael Herron, Dartmouth
"Ballot Formats, Touchscreens, and Undervotes: A Study of the 2006 Midterm Elections in Florida"

March 12

Jeffrey Segal, SUNY at Stony Brook
"Congress, the Court, and Judicial Review: Testing a Constitutional Separation of Powers Model"

October 9

Eric Oliver, University of Chicago
"Vote Choice in Suburban Elections"

October 23

Walter Mebane, Cornell University
"Election Forensics: Errors, Frauds, Tests and Recounts"

November 6

Sunshine Hillygus, Harvard University
"The Persuadable Voter: Strategic Candidates and Wedge Issues in Presidential Campaigns"

November 20

Marissa Guerrero, University of Chicago
"Negotiating the Ideology of Motherhood: The Construction of Mothers on Welfare in Mainstream Leftist Media"

December 4

Lee Epstein, Northwestern University
"Extensions on 'The Changing Dynamics of Senate Voting on Supreme Court Nominees'"
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